Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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